Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Based on your market size and penetration expectations, size how many units you will sell, at what price, in every channel. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Financial forecasts for startups are assumed to be estimates that will be updated as more information is known.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. How big is the funding request, and how much equity will you give? Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. What are your specific marketing and sales plans?

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Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If This allows them to calculate burn rates, break-even points and forecast the company valuation over time. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans. If we build it they will come” is not a marketing and sales strategy.

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Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the rise of startups and growing businesses , it has become more critical for investors to have a thorough understanding of equity to be aware of all of the advantages they are receiving from the companies they have invested in. What is Company Equity? Types of equity. Common stock. Preferred shares.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

For example, you could be dealing with different channels (“on-site”, “in-app”, “mobile web”, etc.). Imagine you receive an email from your bank about refinancing and home equity loans. Instead of stopping at a popup advertising a home equity eBook, go the extra mile to cover the entire experience.

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Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Financial forecast and metrics.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Forecasted recovery date. Sales pipeline/forecast. Ask yourself: Are there now new customers, new services and new channels to pursue? Award equity to employees equal to the value of their reduced salaries. Shelter in place yes/no? Health of Your Current Target Market(s). Actively buying? Not returning calls?

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 333

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Financial forecast and metrics.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. See Also 8 Tips For Getting Your Product Into Retail Channels. Investors look for great teams in addition to great ideas. Read more ». Financial Plan.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2021

Doing this grows your current customer base, expands the available market, and simultaneously improves your brand equity within the enterprise email management market. Interview customers, conduct market research , forecast sales and expenses, and be sure that a new product is viable for your business.

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Software Review Marketing Campaign Forecast 146

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Let me start by saying that most channel relationships don’t work. I’ve seen way too many startups spend all their energy getting channel deals done only to find out that they don’t produce ANY revenue. This post is dedicated to explaining why channel relationships suffer and how you can improve them.

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Channel Startup Sales Partner 293

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Further, you demonstrate on your spreadsheet that a venture return to early investors is plausible at a valuation that gives you enough equity to get the job done and to take care of you and your team at exit time. Maybe a desired distribution channel was more costly or less productive than expected.

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Valuation Forecast Seed Money Business Model 48

Up and Running

MAY 14, 2015

These include marketing decisions such as pricing, channels, website, social media, promotion, and advertising. Your company’s sales forecast, spending budget, and cash flow. Build from your working sales forecast and expense budget to complete financial projections. No additional text is needed. Use bullet points again.

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Lean Forecast Balance Sheet 60

David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

. “Everyone is bringing them in nowadays” BROWN: Mobile is a delivery channel for capability. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. LYONS: How do you grow the customer relationship thru these channels? Apple 11-12x P/E. 7 years old.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

If they normally take 20 percent equity for a proven team and concept, they may ask for upwards of 40 percent of the company for a similar round that has an unproven concept and team. A business at scale may have a customer acquisition cost of $35, but this is averaged across all of their marketing channels.

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Early Stage Startup Forecast Channel 60

www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s not. It was baffling at first until I realized that valuation is an output and that the focus is on future value. (To

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Valuation Channel Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 42

Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2020

In my specific case, it was a matter of building physical products for inventory , selling through channels, and waiting to get paid by distributors. . I’d learned cash flow in business school, but I had to learn it again, for real, by going to my bank, signing a lien on my house equity, and getting an emergency loan. .

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Technical Review Metrics Finance Forecast 132

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. For previous editions, click here. The growth figure is largely based on a new 9.1%

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

AI applications are already appearing in virtual customer assistants with speech recognition, sentiment analysis, automated/augmented quality assurance and other technologies providing customers with 24/7 self- and assisted-service options across channels. AI in National Security. AI/ML and Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance.

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